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My installation of Mac OS X Lion

This installation of Mac OS X Lion took my weekend and then some, to figure it all out and get things to work. Making the backup took almost a day. The order of the steps taken is now what it should have been, had I been able to see in the future. I hope these steps can help you to speed up your installation of Lion.

1) I downloaded Lion from the Mac App Store

2) Located it in /Applications, copied it to a backup disk.

3) Right-clicked it and chose 'Show package contents' - Opened the Folder 'Contents' - Opened the Folder 'SharedSupport'. In there is a file 'InstallESD.dmg'

4) Inserted a 8GB USB Flash Drive into an USB-slot of my Mac

5) Started Disk Utility - Selected the USB-flash drive in the bar on the left - Selected the pane 'Partition' - Chose 1 partition - Clicked 'Options' and selected 'GUID table' - Partitioned the drive - Selected the USB-flash drive in the bar on the left - Selected the pane 'Restore' - Dragged the USB-flash drive to the field 'Destination' - Dragged the 'InstallESD.dmg' to the field 'Source' - Clicked the 'Restore'-buttonNow I can always boot from the flash drive and (re)install Lion.

6) I deactivated licenses of the following software (advise from OnOne): - All OnOne Software tools - RapidSearch (just to be on the safe side)

8) Removed following apps - DivX and 3iVX (Uninstallers are in their respective folders in /Applications) - FlagIt! (Mail plug-in) -> uninstalled this, development halts and Lion has now 7 flags of different colors. I also went into System Preferences and uninstalled SpiceShaker and removed the SpiceRack Prefpane since nothing else but FlagIt! was using this. - Adobe AIR (removed everything from '/Application Support' and '~/Application Support' folders)Apple has made the folder 'Library' in the home folder invisible. But I can get to it via SHIFT-CMD-G and by entering the following path '~/library'.

9) Restarted my MacAt the bongggg, I held down the SHIFT-key until a progress bar appeared: Mac starts in Safe-mode. From our national Apple Doctors (CARD Services) I learned that it is best to install major updates while in 'safe mode'.

16) Opened 'App Store' from the Dock and downloaded 'Xcode' - I installed Xcode by starting 'Install Xcode' in /Applications

17) I rely on FastCGI (for Lasso 9), which is not included in Lion anymore. So I had to restore the file 'mod_fastcgi.so' from the backup disk, made in step 8. The Lion installer also removed the file 'Lasso8ConnectorforApache2.2.so' which is needed for Lasso 8. I copied both of them back. If you need these, you can find them and copy them to '/usr/libexec/apache2/' (same folder as in 10.6)

18) Then, my iPhone was not recognized, because somehow either the Lion or Xcode installers have removed a file call 'usbmuxd' and support files. To get this working again, I had to reinstall iTunes from scratch, like this: - Via 'Terminal', deleted iTunes: 'sudo rm -R /Applications/iTunes.app' - Next, I followed the steps outlined here: support.apple.com/kb/ht1747 - Then I downloaded iTunes from Apple's site and installed it. iPhone is back!

21) And the last thing I did was repair disk permissions via Disk Utility.

22) A restart and back to business.23) If QuickTime Player X is behaving strange, like when you click a player's window, you click through it, get rid of old files in the Preferences folder. Open Terminal and type the following exactly as written:cd ~/Library/Preferencesrm *QuickT*X*

Foto: A gray, dreary morning

A gray, dreary morning

Mac OS X Dock Separators

Here are some Mac OS X Dock separators (dock-separators(apps-intel)). These are mainly dummy apps and folders with a transparent icon and names that consist of only spaces. The apps are all Intel-only. The .zip contains 6 apps, the first one has a name of 1 space and the 6th one has a name of 6 spaces, and 3 folders with the same transparent icon and spaces as names. Here's how I use them:

ICSviewer

A small program to convert a calendar-export (.ics-file) to table-format and calculate working hours, so you can copy and paste the results of your calendar entries into an invoice or a spreadsheet. Download here.